Are they all like this?

[Fab Foodie]

Your club sounds lovely, its a shame its too far away

It exists because we started a club in our own image .... amiables that like riding bikes. These days it's pretty easy to start such a group what with fb and all that. If you build it they will come. There will be many in your locale looking for the same thing.
Do it!

 

[Markymark]

I do sympathise. I was going shopping then meeting my mum for lunch. I got held up by cyclists in a group for aroubd 2 miles. If made me 38seconds late. My mum was furious. It threw the whole day out. First I was late for the shops which made no difference. Then my mum had to wait 38 seconds as I must shop for exactly 19.58 minutes and could not cut it short. Then after lunch I was 10 minutes late because I then spent 9 minutes and 22 seconds bitching about cyvlist's and posting on forums.

Honestly, 10 minutes late and 38 seconds of that was due to inconsiderate cyclists.

I will petition to have cyclists banned from the roads as its simply ridiculous to expect me to leave 38seconds earlier. Until they do I will have to , HAVE TO MIND, break the speed limit to catch up. If I end up killing someone my conscience is clear but I bet these Lycra louts will just laugh.

 

[Crandoggler]

Apologies. I was riding the other way.

For the benefit of 100% factual evidence, the gross number of 8 has been retracted and replaced with 4.

 

[glenn forger]

So if you were going the other way, where did the twenty five minute delay come from? You're having a go at cyclists for Future Crime?

 

[Crandoggler]

Done with this forum. Really am.

I've over excited what has/could have happened for the benefit of the reader. It wasn't supposed to be factual, just a summary to indicate that they should at least have made an effort to let the cars through that had no chance to over take due to the road and the peloton holding them up, and the potential dangers of falling whilst in a large group spread across the road. That was all.

 

[Crandoggler]

Why not? If it was bad enough to moan about it was bad enough without the embellishment

Would it make you feel better if I deleted the last paragraph?

 

[glenn forger]

You might as well have a go at cyclists for carrying out armed robberies and shouting sexual swear words at ginger orphans, you've got as much evidence of those crimes as you have for your "25 minute delay" load of old trousers.

 

[Markymark]

Done with this forum. Really am.

I've over excited what has/could have happened for the benefit of the reader. It wasn't supposed to be factual, just a summary to indicate that they should at least have made an effort to let the cars through that had no chance to over take due to the road and the peloton holding them up, and the potential dangers of falling whilst in a large group spread across the road. That was all.

Double flounce in one thread. Impressive.

 

[Mugshot]

Done with this forum. Really am..

No need to disappear @Crandoggler but there's no need to embellish things like this either.
There are people that ride like idiots when in groups, I've seen it myself and despite what others may try to suggest the fact is that as a group cyclists do tend to be lumped together as a single entity, so when one acts like a tosser it means that we all act like tossers. Your OP does exhibit much of this lumping together mentality though, right down to the made up waiting times and number of cyclists there were, I'm assuming that you were making the average speed up too?
In fact if cyclists are riding in a manner which takes the whole lane it actually makes things easier and safer for the overtake for both the motorists and the cyclists, it just needs people to actually stop and think about it for a second, unfortunately it's often easier just to knee jerk and rant.

 

[Tim Hall]

Apologies. I was riding the other way.

For the benefit of 100% factual evidence, the gross number of 8 has been retracted and replaced with 4.

I think you'll find 144 is a gross number, not 8.

 

[Hip Priest]

I cycle extensively. The absolute maximum I've ever seen is 3 abreast. And even that is abnormal.

 

[Stu Smith]

Done with this forum. Really am.

I've over excited what has/could have happened for the benefit of the reader. It wasn't supposed to be factual, just a summary to indicate that they should at least have made an effort to let the cars through that had no chance to over take due to the road and the peloton holding them up, and the potential dangers of falling whilst in a large group spread across the road. That was all.

Don't rise to the bullying thats all it is..Who in all honesty as never exaggerated on anything..

 

[glenn forger]

Cyclists have a right to claim the lane
It may come as a surprise to most drivers but cyclists have as much right as drivers to take up the entire lane. You will often see cyclists riding side-by-side, and you, as a driver, may think they’re being selfish by doing so. But the fact is the cyclist is actually reducing the risk of having an accident; it’s the safest way for them to cycle, particularly if there’s a blind bend, a narrowing of the road, a high risk junction, pinch point or traffic lights ahead.

http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Safety-advice/Road-Safety/Cyclists.aspx

Scary that there are drivers who don't know the law or anything about safe cycling.

 

[Drago]

They may have a right, but that doesn't make it sensible or safe. That's the sort of approach that sees riders stretchered away, bones sticking out their skin, shouting "but it was MY right of way!"

Having a "right" means jack when it comes to life expectancy on the road.

 

[Tin Pot]

Done with this forum. Really am.

I've over excited what has/could have happened for the benefit of the reader. It wasn't supposed to be factual, just a summary to indicate that they should at least have made an effort to let the cars through that had no chance to over take due to the road and the peloton holding them up, and the potential dangers of falling whilst in a large group spread across the road. That was all.

It's pretty much impossible to discuss cyclist behaviour on the road here unless you have carefully constructed a robust argument, with evidence and braced yourself for the onslaught. There is a lot of emotion here.

It is entirely possible that the cyclists were legitimately using the road and that your perception of good behaviour is incorrect. Or, they were being inconsiderate as you say. Who knows eh?

Try starting a thread on wearing/not wearing helmets instead, it's much more civilised.